Wear black and bring flowers, posters, messages and other things to remember and honour those murdered in Palestine in the ongoing genocide.

Demand UK Firms Stop Supporting Genocide

BAE - Merchants of Death

BAE Systems are the biggest UK company involved in making and maintaining the F35 fighter-bomber. This aircraft is testing high-tech weaponry on the civilian population of Gaza. F-35s have dropped 2000-pound bombs on Gaza. These bombs send shock-waves that kill everything within a range of 360 metres. BAE's full-year financial results, published on 19 February 2025, showed sales soared 14% to £28.3 billion in 2024. Underlying profit grew by a similar percentage to £3.02 billion. BAE is guilty of war crimes and profiting from genocide. Join protests demanding companies like BAE and Lockheed Martin stop exporting slaughter to the Palestinian people.

Welfare Not Warfare

Action on Saturday 26 April

We will assemble outside Barclays Bank from 11am to leaflet about the boycott campaign. This will be followed at approximately 12.30pm with a symbolic funeral march to Unicorn Gate next to BAE, where we will lay wreaths for the more than 60,000 Palestinians slaughtered with support from the UK. Bring banners, placards, wreaths, and flowers.

🚩 Sunday 27th April 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Against Prejudice

Protest re the recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of the word "woman".

Where: Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2ABT
When: Sunday 27th April from 11am

We support this action. What follows is a message from the organizers, Trans Pride Portsmouth:

Now is the time to show the government that we don't agree with their constant onslaught against trans people, we are reaching out to all in the LGBTQIA+ community and those who support us, we will not let bigotry win, we will not let the UK go the way of other countries pushing to eradicate trans people, now is the time, rise up!

Bring flags, bring banners, bring the spirit of the original stonewall, show them we are not afraid, we are not going anywhere and that we will not be eradicated, stand for the rights of all trans people.

🚩 Monday 28th April 2025

🕯 International Workers Memorial Day

Where: Victoria Park, Portsmouth, PO1 3HJ
When: Monday 28th April at 11.45am
Bring flags and banners.

Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don't die of mystery ailments, or in tragic "accidents". They die because an employer decided their safety just wasn't that important a priority. Workers Memorial Day commemorates those workers.

Portsmouth Trades Council marks Workers Memorial Day with a ceremony at the memorial stone in Victoria Park at 11.45 every year on 28 April. There will be a minute's silence at 12 noon followed by speeches. A guest speaker has been invited (yet to confirm) likely to be either Mick Lynch, an Usdaw representative or someone from Unite. The event is open to all. it may be especially relevant to trade union workers who know someone who died in the workplace.

About us

What on Earth is Unite Community?

Unite Community is the union for the unwaged.

It brings together the unemployed, retired people, disabled, carers and students and provides organization and resources to enable us to campaign together on issues that matter to us.

Unite Community is a sector of Unite The Union, so we have the backing of Britain & Irelands largest Trade Union, with over a million members.

The Portsmouth & District branch covers the whole PO postcode area, which includes Fareham, Gosport, Portsmouth, Havant, Chichester, Bognor Regis, and the Isle of Wight.

What kind of things do you get up to?

We regularly get involved with campaigning on matters such as:

End sewage discharges into our rivers and seas
End fuel poverty - restore the winter fuel allowance- re-nationalize energy
Oppose racism and fascism - we supported the recent Stand Up To Racism unity rallies in Portsmouth
We run minibuses to London to enable members to attend national demonstrations on issues they care about, such as ending the genocide in Palestine or opposing cuts to welfare for disabled people

This list is not comprehensive. The beauty of Unite Community is that if you have the energy to drive a campaign and you gain our backing, we will launch the campaign with the full support of branch members and resources.

Portsmouth & District Unite Community

🚩 Saturday 26th April 2025

🕊 Symbolic funeral procession for the murdered innocents of Gaza